Nyars boxes

Nyars is a NPC that hangs in the back room of the Impending Doom bar. He sells research materials, aliens artifacts, prototypes, and random junk, all "liberated" from R&D. The catch is, everything he sells comes wrapped up; you won't know what you've bought until you've opened the box.

Nyars, presumably

Nyars doesn't offer refunds.

While you can't know what exactly you're buying, every box has a prominently displayed designation on it; these are used by R&D to categorize stuff. Nyars offers 5 random boxes for sale at a time, at variable prices.

Nyars boxes were originally categorized by the Color Solid Dash system (the Old System). Around the time of Missions 16-18, this was changed to the "old", tag-based classification system (the New System). In this interest of clarity for figuring out the Tag system, Artifacts under the old system have been moved off this page.[1]

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Artifacts under this system are created with a random generator made by Piecewise.[2][3] Artifacts acquired by players during previous missions can still show up, though. Artifacts under this system vary in price, and can be quite expensive.

The new system uses a set of tags to classify artifacts. The first known designation is UCH-ADU-EP-Uj129 "Flamboyant Spark", which was responsible for the Second Halloween Event, and is presumed destroyed.

A long, rectangular box, about 4-5 inches high and wide, and maybe a foot and a half long.

The box contains what appear to be microscope slides, though much more heavy duty then normal in terms of construction. They're squares of thick plastic held together with a metal frame. Sandwiched between the plastic slides are thin sheets of what look like metallic tissue membranes. The box, which has clearly been made to hold the slides, with little separate compartments for each one, holds maybe 25 slides.

A tiedye shirt. After staring at it for a moment, the spiraling colors move, twisting and blurring into a technicolor whirlpool. The colors leak off the shirt and infect the world, staining the ship and Maurice's flesh with neon hues.[4]

A large rectangular box, about a foot long and wide, maybe 8 inches tall.

A neatly folded cloth object; it looks like a fine, green metallic mesh. It crawled under Leonardo's skin when he touched it. It protected him from (or helped him absorb) an electricity based attack.[5]

The artifact responsible for the 2014 Halloween Event. Sucked part of the sword into some sort of digital pocket dimension after 'bonding' with a research assistant. Presumed destroyed at the conclusion of the event, shot with a laser first - prompting a violent reaction - and then left inside the anomaly after Auron uses his Christmas potion to make time slow down to a crawl and act while almost everything is frozen.

A long rectangular box, about two and a half feet long, and 5 inches wide and tall.

A metallic rod which extends from the center of a handle, so that if you were to hold the handle, the rod would come out between your middle and ring fingers. The handle is a blackish enamel while the rod is a bright blue, and it's surface looks like crinkled tinfoil, but feels smooth.

absurdly radioactive.

ICH-OT-VE-Xo1021 SPOOKY BLUE-GREEN

20 tokens

Too big to fit on Nyars' table, stashed elsewhere

It was a vehicle, very powerful. A sort of bio-organic goo that you get inside and pilot via brains. Lets you become a blob monster.

Not radioactive

ICH-HA-VE-Ui428 EFFULGENT BRONZE

12 tokens

Also too big to fit on Nyars' table, stashed elsewhere

Not radioactive

CHI-SSB-Po2918 DIVINE STORM

4 tokens

A long cylindrical container that is about two feet long.

ICH-MP-AP-Po2828 JOCULAR REWARD

6 tokens.

A small, hard metal case.

UCH-BDH-MC-Ne253 SPICY JET

2 tokens

A very large rectangular box, about 6 or so feet tall and 3 wide.

CNI-MS-Xo21 ADROIT FLAG

5 tokens

A standard egg shaped container that has been wrapped in copper mesh and contained within a clear plastic box.